I ran into the same problem some time ago, and made the following change to
correct it.  The bug would leak 8KB of memory each time cyg_io_lookup() was
called for a termios device (after the first time).

Index: ecos/packages/io/serial/current/src/common/termiostty.c
===================================================================
RCS file:
/cvs/ecos/ecos/packages/io/serial/current/src/common/termiostty.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -5 -p -r1.6 termiostty.c
--- ecos/packages/io/serial/current/src/common/termiostty.c	5 Sep 2003
05:09:19 -0000	1.6
+++ ecos/packages/io/serial/current/src/common/termiostty.c	18 Jul 2005
16:31:37 -0000
@@ -254,11 +254,12 @@ real_termios_init( struct termios_privat
         res = cyg_io_get_config( priv->dev_handle,
                                  CYG_IO_GET_CONFIG_SERIAL_BUFFER_INFO,
                                  &dev_buf_conf, &len );
     }
 
-    priv->errbuf = (cyg_uint8 *)malloc( dev_buf_conf.rx_bufsize );
+    if ( NULL == priv->errbuf )  // Re-entrant code -- only do this once!
+        priv->errbuf = (cyg_uint8 *)malloc( dev_buf_conf.rx_bufsize );
     if ( NULL == priv->errbuf )
         res = ENOMEM;   // FIXME: Are we allowed to do this?
     priv->errbufpos = priv->errbuf;
     priv->errbufsize = dev_buf_conf.rx_bufsize;
 
Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: John Paul King [mailto:jpking@advantexmail.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 2:28 PM
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [ECOS] Termios memory leak?


I've been using eCos w/ termios serial ports, and it seems that each 
open/close of such devices allocates memory that is never freed.  Struct 
termios_private_info has a member 'errbuf' that is malloc'd in function 
'real_termios_init' (packages/io/serial/src/common/termiostty.c), but I 
never see a corrseponding 'free'.  I grep'd through the source, and I 
haven't seen any actions taken on 'errbuf' (other than allocation within 
termiostty), so is it even used in eCos?  I have temporarily removed the 
few lines that deal w/ 'errbuf', and my application seems to work 
properly now, but is this a safe thing to do?

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